A Memorandum of Understanding to establish a local office of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Guyana was signed by Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud and the Director-General of the FAO, Dr Jacques Diouf when Persaud was in Rome, Italy for an FAO conference recently.
Traffic Chief of ‘B’ Division, John Daniels informed students from schools across West Berbice last week that out of 37 accidents that occurred in Berbice for this year, there were 43 fatalities with seven being children.
President Bharrat Jagdeo last Thursday told the media that he has already started discussion with the Ministry of Finance about cushioning the impact of escalating prices, especially on pensioners and other vulnerable groups.
Two new GSM Cell sites have been established by the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph (GT&T) at central Linden and Canal Number One enabling cellular users in those areas to experience improved mobile signals.
A 42-year-old man was injured after the motorcycle that he was riding collided with a car on the Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara (ECD) public road yesterday.
A 42-year-old woman and her two children were yesterday morning found burnt to death at her Patentia, West Bank Demerara (WBD) home after she had earlier told neighbours that she would kill herself and burn the house down.
The three bandits who were shot dead on Friday evening have now been identified.
Two men, one of whom was armed, injured an East Coast Demerara woman last evening during a failed robbery attempt outside the Igloo Ice-cream parlour on Camp Street.
Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) flour company National Flour Mills (NFM) is set to increase its flour prices by 15% from December 3, but the local flour mill claims it is being prevented from increasing its prices due to dumping by NFM.
The Iwokrama Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development has received US$90,000 in royalties since commercial activities began at the site in January, and the operating company is expecting certification by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) next year.
Resentment, an inability to trust, emotional trauma and depression are some of the psychological scars carried by children who suffered sexual molestation at the hands of family members.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said a lifestyle of abstinence, faithfulness and condomising was the approach to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and urged Guyanese to preach it.
A book containing a selection of Godfrey Chin’s Nostalgias will be launched at the Sidewalk Caf
Come next pension day, Kitty pensioners will have fresh water to drink as they wait their turn in the queue at the post office, compliments of the Kitty Women’s Institute.
The Caribbean Airlines clerk who allegedly checked in a cocaine-filled suitcase and tried to pass it off as belonging to an outgoing passenger appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of trafficking in narcotics.
A clothing vendor who was allegedly found with cocaine hidden in the false bottoms of two suitcases at the Timehri bus park on Wednesday, was yesterday charged and appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Magistrate Hazel Octive Hamilton yesterday remanded a 32-year-old Albouystown man to prison after he appeared before her in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a robbery under arms charge.
A Guyanese man was sentenced to 74 months in federal prison yesterday for illegally reentering the United States.
A Plaisance man appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of three gun offences, which he allegedly committed in the Cuyuni River and his accomplice in two of the matters is yet to be arrested.
Consultations between President Bharrat Jagdeo and Opposition Leader Robert Corbin on the appointments of a Chancellor and Chief Justice ended in another deadlock yesterday, with both parties still holding firm to their original positions.
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